ASML Buys Back Half of Its Shares Issued from Convertible Bonds.

VELDHOVEN, the Netherlands -- ASML Holding ASML is a Dutch company and the world’s primary supplier of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. Of all the major chip producers worldwide, more than 80% are ASML customers. NV (ASML ASML Abstract State Machine Language
ASML Anisotropic Shielded Microstrip Line ) today announced that it will issue 30.8 million ordinary shares to satisfy the conversion rights exercised under its convertible bonds due October 15, 2006. In all, 99.99 percent of the bonds were converted.

Of the 30.8 million shares issuable upon conversion of the bonds, 14.9 million shares were bought back pursuant to the call option transaction announced on October 9, 2006. The net effect of the call option transaction will be to reduce the number of new shares issued to 15.9 million shares.

ASML has paid USD USD

In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the U.S. Dollar.

Notes:
The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 347.5 million in cash for this share buyback and the underlying call options.

About ASML

ASML is the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits Integrated circuits

Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about ¹/₂₀ in. (1. or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ NASDAQ
in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations

U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on under the symbol ASML. For more information, visit the Web site at ASML.com.

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